I recall hearing many people,including Brad Jones himself talk about it. I came across a video he made explaining the movie and the concept quickly pulled me in.
Cheap is a 2005 low budget movie about the porn/snuff industry. We meet Max Force, a porn producer with a cocaine addiction who is getting tired of repetitive plots and ideas and wants something fresh and new. For much of the movie, we see conflict issues between Max and his pregnant wife,Tracy. Later into the movie, we meet Jack Stone, a porn director who worked with Max in the past. He brought a lot of money to Max's company and is welcomed backed; after a recent movie by him is given to Max. Max tells another director in the industry, Derek, that he should learn something from Jack. It's unbeknownst to Max or anyone else that the ultra violent porn was real, and Max distributed a snuff film to his website.
With the help of his girlfriend Patty, a teenage runaway Anita and an old friend who was previously found guilty of being a child molester Manny; Jack and crew make large amounts of money for the few snuff films they directed.
The movie has hardly any redeeming characters so when something bad happens to them, you don't care. It also changes from being a movie with situational irony and balancing of two evils, to a revenge film as it reaches the end. It's really nice and interesting with the death scenes, to hear ballads playing in the background. It's nice to hear such a beautiful score, but at the same time it's also ironic for reasons which remind me of Cannibal Holocaust. The movie itself is pretty long and does stretch out, but it's still pretty great.
Give it a shot sometime.
Cheap is a 2005 low budget movie about the porn/snuff industry. We meet Max Force, a porn producer with a cocaine addiction who is getting tired of repetitive plots and ideas and wants something fresh and new. For much of the movie, we see conflict issues between Max and his pregnant wife,Tracy. Later into the movie, we meet Jack Stone, a porn director who worked with Max in the past. He brought a lot of money to Max's company and is welcomed backed; after a recent movie by him is given to Max. Max tells another director in the industry, Derek, that he should learn something from Jack. It's unbeknownst to Max or anyone else that the ultra violent porn was real, and Max distributed a snuff film to his website.
With the help of his girlfriend Patty, a teenage runaway Anita and an old friend who was previously found guilty of being a child molester Manny; Jack and crew make large amounts of money for the few snuff films they directed.
The movie has hardly any redeeming characters so when something bad happens to them, you don't care. It also changes from being a movie with situational irony and balancing of two evils, to a revenge film as it reaches the end. It's really nice and interesting with the death scenes, to hear ballads playing in the background. It's nice to hear such a beautiful score, but at the same time it's also ironic for reasons which remind me of Cannibal Holocaust. The movie itself is pretty long and does stretch out, but it's still pretty great.
Give it a shot sometime.